Snapchat’s dark mode for Android no longer locked behind subscription
Snapchat has quietly dropped the paywall for dark mode on Android after previously requiring users to have a Snapchat+ subscription to access the feature. The company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday that dark mode is now available to all users. The change was first spotted by Android Police. Dark mode
Read moreCoffee Briefing Aug. 8 – CRTC announces MVNO agreements officially in place; Google rolls out privacy features; AWS commits $100,000 to support local initiatives in Calgary; and more
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. CRTC celebrates competition milestone as MVNO access agreements officially in place The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
Read moreUnveiling the Apple Watch Ultra 2: 5 Remarkable Features That Redefine Smartwatch Excellence
Introducing the Apple Watch Ultra 2, Apple’s latest and most powerful smartwatch that boasts a range of impressive features, setting it apart from the competition. www.msn.com, Lists 5 standout attributes that define its excellence: 1. Expansive and Vibrant Display: The Apple Watch Ultra 2 sports a generously sized 2.1-inch microLED
Read moreMöbius transformations over a finite field
A Möbius transformation is a function of the form where ad – bc = 1. We usually think of z as a complex number, but it doesn’t have to be. We could define Möbius transformations in any context where we can multiply, add, and divide, i.e. over any field. In
Read moreIt’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today let’s talk about a wild weekend of backtracking at the company formerly known as Twitter — and how
Read moreSimon Data is putting customer data to work with $54M Series D
The customer data platform (CDP) has become a standard way to collect first party customer data and put it to work. Simon Data, which was founded in 2015, has always had a vision of being more than purely a customer data repository. It also offers applications out of the box
Read moreGreenlight’s new credit card helps teens, their parents build credit together
Greenlight Financial Technology has long provided financial education and debit cards to its child and teen customers since 2014; however, today the company launched the Greenlight Family Cash Mastercard to help those same customers build their credit before they reach adulthood. Parents add their teens as authorized users of the
Read moreCatch+Release raises $8M to help brands discover and license user-generated content
Companies seeking images or videos for their materials materials will typically commission a shoot, or scour stock media catalogs. Catch+Release, however, wants to help marketers license existing user-generated content, and the eight-year-old startup is setting out to build an AI-powered search engine to help brands do just that. Catch+Release —
Read moreFlower lands $3.6M to grow its platform for federated learning
The reliance on public data — mostly web data — to train AI is holding back the AI field. That’s according to Daniel Beutel, a tech entrepreneur and researcher at the University of Cambridge, who co-founded a startup, Flower, to solve what he sees as a growing problem in AI
Read moreChargeflow, which taps AI to fight chargebacks, raises $14M
Chargeflow, a startup using AI to fight chargeback fraud, today announced that it raised $11 million in a seed round led by the VC firm OpenView Venture Partners. The tranche builds on Chargeflow’s previously undisclosed $3 million seed round closed several months ago, bringing the startup’s total raised to $14
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